Re: personal identity

Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Fri, 09 Jan 1998 11:08:46 -0500


Max M wrote:
> If it furthermore was possible to merge the different personalities into
> one after some time.

This is a new idea to me. Good work! Most of the arguments against
copying have been based on the obvious divergence of the individuals.
Attacking the problem be resolving the divergence seems to be a logical
approach.

If they were later to merge, they would then be the same person. But
couldn't any seperate individuals on this list eventually merge and
become one person in some distant future? Aren't we seperate
individuals until/unless that happens?

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Harvey Newstrom  <harv@gate.net>